[math-fun] A Plea for Pi
People, please put the pi back in Pi Day. Somehow, it has lost its meaning in the commercialism of the aggressive baking industry, and people just gorge themselves on pie instead of thinking about how it all started. One day, a small number, rejected by the cabal of rationals, stood up on its wobbly two legs and announced to the world "I am the Ratio". Tell people that today you celebrate the number and not the pastry. Hilarie
Hello, I agree with you, now, western digital has a new drive, the Pidrive of 314 gigs, http://wdlabs.wd.com/products/wd-pidrive-314gb/ this is ... , it would had been better to have a 3.14 TB disk. or 3.14 Petabytes, this is not a good pi day. best regards, Simon Plouffe
The only sensible choice for pi day is July 1, when we're pi radians around the sun. (Unless, for some reason, you celebrate the new year on Carathéodory's birthday; then today makes sense.) On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Simon Plouffe <simon.plouffe@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I agree with you,
now, western digital has a new drive, the Pidrive of 314 gigs,
http://wdlabs.wd.com/products/wd-pidrive-314gb/
this is ...
, it would had been better to have a 3.14 TB disk.
or 3.14 Petabytes,
this is not a good pi day.
best regards, Simon Plouffe
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Wouldn't that depend on the time of day that Carathódory was born, not to mention the time zone? —Dan
On Mar 14, 2016, at 1:32 PM, Mike Stay <metaweta@gmail.com> wrote:
The only sensible choice for pi day is July 1, when we're pi radians around the sun. (Unless, for some reason, you celebrate the new year on Carathéodory's birthday; then today makes sense.)
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Simon Plouffe <simon.plouffe@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I agree with you,
now, western digital has a new drive, the Pidrive of 314 gigs,
http://wdlabs.wd.com/products/wd-pidrive-314gb/
this is ...
, it would had been better to have a 3.14 TB disk.
or 3.14 Petabytes,
this is not a good pi day.
best regards, Simon Plouffe
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Video proving indisputably that mathematics is inconsistent: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/3PszMaZ5Ipk?rel=0 —Dan
Hum, but there is a trick there, at the first cut, when the video makes a jump in timing, we can see that the figure of 7 x 9 is not the same as the one originally in the box, and this substitution is made 2 times, ... at first sight it looks good, but well, clever trick. (but they cheated with the video). Simon Plouffe
Another uniquely sensible choice would be New Year's Day, celebrating that, yet again, the earth has completed a circle around the sun. —Dan
On Mar 14, 2016, at 1:32 PM, Mike Stay <metaweta@gmail.com> wrote:
The only sensible choice for pi day is July 1, when we're pi radians around the sun. (Unless, for some reason, you celebrate the new year on Carathéodory's birthday; then today makes sense.)
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Simon Plouffe <simon.plouffe@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I agree with you,
now, western digital has a new drive, the Pidrive of 314 gigs,
http://wdlabs.wd.com/products/wd-pidrive-314gb/
this is ...
, it would had been better to have a 3.14 TB disk.
or 3.14 Petabytes,
this is not a good pi day.
best regards, Simon Plouffe
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On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 3:13 PM, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
Another uniquely sensible choice would be New Year's Day, celebrating that, yet again, the earth has completed a circle around the sun.
That, of course, would be "tau" day. http://tauday.com/ -- Mike Stay - metaweta@gmail.com http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~mike http://reperiendi.wordpress.com
I'm sorry, but I have to come down on the side of the pastry. It's pi, but it's also e.
-----Original Message----- From: math-fun [mailto:math-fun-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Hilarie Orman Sent: Monday, March 14, 2016 2:28 PM To: math-fun@mailman.xmission.com Subject: [math-fun] A Plea for Pi
People, please put the pi back in Pi Day. Somehow, it has lost its meaning in the commercialism of the aggressive baking industry, and people just gorge themselves on pie instead of thinking about how it all started. One day, a small number, rejected by the cabal of rationals, stood up on its wobbly two legs and announced to the world "I am the Ratio". Tell people that today you celebrate the number and not the pastry.
Hilarie
For some reason, Hilarie's post brought to mind a mental image of actors dressed up as sqrt(2), phi, e, and pi on the number line, with various appropriate personalities (in a "Hi, I'm a Mac!" "And I'm a PC" sort of vein, but mathematical). Phi would definitely be the artsy one of the bunch. Jim On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Hilarie Orman <ho@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
People, please put the pi back in Pi Day. Somehow, it has lost its meaning in the commercialism of the aggressive baking industry, and people just gorge themselves on pie instead of thinking about how it all started. One day, a small number, rejected by the cabal of rationals, stood up on its wobbly two legs and announced to the world "I am the Ratio". Tell people that today you celebrate the number and not the pastry.
Hilarie
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I just learned that one mole of gas at STP takes up pi^e liters. On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 5:43 PM, James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com> wrote:
For some reason, Hilarie's post brought to mind a mental image of actors dressed up as sqrt(2), phi, e, and pi on the number line, with various appropriate personalities (in a "Hi, I'm a Mac!" "And I'm a PC" sort of vein, but mathematical). Phi would definitely be the artsy one of the bunch.
Jim
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Hilarie Orman <ho@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
People, please put the pi back in Pi Day. Somehow, it has lost its meaning in the commercialism of the aggressive baking industry, and people just gorge themselves on pie instead of thinking about how it all started. One day, a small number, rejected by the cabal of rationals, stood up on its wobbly two legs and announced to the world "I am the Ratio". Tell people that today you celebrate the number and not the pastry.
Hilarie
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Wow, that's really good! Standard temperature and pressure (STP) uses 273 degrees Kelvin, while pi^e liters would require 273.70! --Michael On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 9:31 PM, Mike Stay <metaweta@gmail.com> wrote:
I just learned that one mole of gas at STP takes up pi^e liters.
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 5:43 PM, James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com> wrote:
For some reason, Hilarie's post brought to mind a mental image of actors dressed up as sqrt(2), phi, e, and pi on the number line, with various appropriate personalities (in a "Hi, I'm a Mac!" "And I'm a PC" sort of vein, but mathematical). Phi would definitely be the artsy one of the bunch.
Jim
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Hilarie Orman <ho@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
People, please put the pi back in Pi Day. Somehow, it has lost its meaning in the commercialism of the aggressive baking industry, and people just gorge themselves on pie instead of thinking about how it all started. One day, a small number, rejected by the cabal of rationals, stood up on its wobbly two legs and announced to the world "I am the Ratio". Tell people that today you celebrate the number and not the pastry.
Hilarie
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And let us never forget that pi seconds is a nanocentury. —Dan
On Mar 14, 2016, at 7:33 PM, Michael Kleber <michael.kleber@gmail.com> wrote:
Wow, that's really good! Standard temperature and pressure (STP) uses 273 degrees Kelvin, while pi^e liters would require 273.70!
--Michael
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 9:31 PM, Mike Stay <metaweta@gmail.com> wrote:
I just learned that one mole of gas at STP takes up pi^e liters.
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 5:43 PM, James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com> wrote:
For some reason, Hilarie's post brought to mind a mental image of actors dressed up as sqrt(2), phi, e, and pi on the number line, with various appropriate personalities (in a "Hi, I'm a Mac!" "And I'm a PC" sort of vein, but mathematical). Phi would definitely be the artsy one of the bunch.
Jim
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Hilarie Orman <ho@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
People, please put the pi back in Pi Day. Somehow, it has lost its meaning in the commercialism of the aggressive baking industry, and people just gorge themselves on pie instead of thinking about how it all started. One day, a small number, rejected by the cabal of rationals, stood up on its wobbly two legs and announced to the world "I am the Ratio". Tell people that today you celebrate the number and not the pastry.
Hilarie
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